Metro Washington Council afl-cio

Chanting “It’s not that cold, we won’t fold!” several dozen Washington Post workers and their supporters picketed outside the Post Tuesday. “We’re making some progress but the major issues are still before us,” said Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild 32035’s Rick Ehrmann. Representatives of the Post and Guild met January 7 and reached tentative agreement on several issues... - report/photo by Chris Garlock

“Management dropped a poison pill proposal that could have made it difficult for the union to collect membership dues,” the Guild reported last week. “This followed progress made in our previous session on job security and evaluations.” Pensions, wages and health benefits are still on the table. “We’re fighting for everybody” on the pension issue, Ehrmann said. Union members are the only workers at the Post who still have traditional pensions; “management’s pensions were frozen as of December 31.”